Connie Williams

GREEN Connie Williams

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harperchristian Resources
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780692323717
• ISBN-10: 0692323716
• Artikelnr.: 57275339

Autorenporträt

Connie Williams is a local figure known for her distinguished career as a skillful writer of prose and poetry. Until her retirement in 2014 she was an instructor of English Composition and Rhetoric at UNC at Charlotte. She also taught in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg and Union County School systems. Her inspirational, fictionalized autobiography, EMILY's BLUES, told how a young divorcee and mother of four went from poverty to a professional, and she was showcased in the "Dare to Dream Project", Z Smith Reynolds Foundation, 1990. She is the recipient of the Arts and Science Council Emerging Artist Award for her book. Her novel's stage play adaptation, entitled "Emily's Dilemma" received the Honorable Terry Sanford Award for Creativity Honorable Mention, and was performed at Livingston College at Salisbury by her students. Her dedication to arts education and outreach led Williams to create, the Emily's Blues Self-Actualization Project, and she volunteered her services to help deter high school dropouts. The EBSAP project received the Union County Community Arts Award for eight years at Piedmont High School where her book was read by students. She has volunteered her services to Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies at the University of South Carolina, at Lancaster and the International Young Writers' Program in Charlotte. She has presented readings and facilitated writing workshops at: Barnes and Noble, the Charlotte Public Library, Imagine On, Ebenezer Baptist Church, the Nile Theater, and UNC, Center City campus at Charlotte; Spirit Square and the Afro American Cultural Center. Williams is a Christa McAuliffe Fellow finalist. She is contributing author to the following publications: HUNGRY FOR HOME "Mama Allie's Talking Dog..." Rogers, Novella Festival Press: 2003. THE NATIONAL LITERARY CIRCULAR: 1990. Original poetry, A SUN-FILLED DREAM, 1989. Classroom consultant: A HISTORY OF THE WORLD: Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1988. Williams is the recipient of the 1996 North Carolina Arts Council Award; the National Endowment for the Arts Award for an eight weeks Fellowship at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California. She is a former Writing Fellow of the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, 1992. She is a graduate of Cal State University, Northridge (B.A. Degree) and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (M.Ed. Degree). She is a mother, grandmother, great-grand mother and wife. She resides with her husband in North Carolina.